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 Through movement we learn, we live, we love. Based on the Feldenkrais Method® and deeply informed by practices and teachings from Formative Psychology® and Aikido — Learning in Action embraces how we grow, learn and develop — physically, emotionally and mentally. Sonja H. Sutherland offers individualized hands-on sessions, teaches group classes, leads workshops and retreats and conducts … Continue reading… Learning in Action  The Spirals of Life and LivingEngaging in a Personal Journey through Dimensions of MovingFriday, May 18 – Sunday May 20, 2012 We live spirals — the spiraling of our galaxy, our DNA, of every fiber in every muscle and tissue in our bodies, and in every move we make. Our attending in … Continue reading… Tahoe Somatic Retreat — May 2012  The Dance of Human EvolutionJoining the Voluntary and Involuntary in the Pulse of LifeFriday, October 14 – Sunday October 16, 2011
All of life pulses, around us and within us. It is our biological inheritance. How we dance with this gift of pulsation influences how we grow and form our personal lives.… Continue reading… Tahoe Somatic Retreat – Oct. 2011  Standing on the shore, caressing the sand with my toes and listening with eyes closed, to the sound of the sea. The rhythm of my breathing begins to shift, to synchronize with the powerful ebb and flow of the ocean gently pulsing along the shore. The ocean exhales and extends toward my toes. My whole being … Continue reading… The Ocean in Me  I walk along the river, following the water’s bubbling, rushing, soothing sound. I experience a deep, visceral sense of comfort, of being at home. As I listen to the river flow, I go back in time, back in my life and in myself… to the time inside my mother’s womb. I heard the sound of … Continue reading… Into the world…  Sonja’s Feldenkrais work was featured in this blog post on brillianceinc.com Continue reading… What Bruce Lee can teach us about living  Creating a Rich and Satisfying Life: Growing Layers to Form a Personal IdentitySunday, January 23rd, 2011 1pm – 5pm in Oakland with Peter Wright* and Sonja Sutherland Great athletes develop an ability to perform very complex motor actions with a high degree of sophistication, elegance and ease. Great thinkers develop a similar grace in … Continue reading… January Somatic Workshop  Transitions and Transformations — in Evolution and in our Personal LivesSaturday, March 19, 2011 in Oakland 10 am – 5 pm With Erik Bendix* and Sonja Sutherland Transitions are a continual part of our lives all the time. In every inhale and exhale, in the continual flow of our circulating blood with each heartbeat, in our … Continue reading… On the Shore of Our Inner Sea  Fulfilling our PotentialMaking and Managing Waves to Form a Personal WorldFriday, May 20th – Sunday, May 22nd 2011 “To impede, support, amplify or soften our waves, to participate in shaping the excitement of our experience as circumstances arise, this ability is our potential. To live our waves through … Continue reading… Tahoe Somatic Retreats – May 2011  Aikido, Somatic Psychology and Feldenkrais® have been my practices, passions and lifepath for well over a decade. I was grateful to partake in a workshop with others who are also interested in the intersection of aikido and psychology. I am deeply curious about how aikido practices can engage us in a process that accesses and … Continue reading… Aikido & Psychology Seminar, review by Sonja  Living & Working with ScoliosisFriday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 25th 2010 Exploring the relationship between our skeletal and visceral support, the dynamic interplay of form and flow and how this influences how we work with ourselves and others. Erik Bendix, a gifted Alexander teacher and Body Mind Centering Practitioner, and I will co-lead … Continue reading… The Learning Curve |
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